Meet the team

Preston Farrington

Chief Executive Officer

Preston’s finance career spans over 25 years across a wide range of industries with public and private companies of all sizes. He began his career as an investment banker focused on mergers and acquisitions before transitioning to corporate and eventually e-commerce. He holds an MBA from Columbia and both a BA in East Asian Language and Literature and a BS in Finance from the University of Florida. He is married with two children.

Rida Wong

President

Rida Wong is the President at FSAstore.com/HSAstore.com where she leads corporate strategy and new business ventures. She comes to us with over 15 years of corporate development and investment banking experience. She was previously in Corporate Development at American Express, sourcing and executing strategic transactions, ranging from partnerships to JVs to acquisitions/divestitures, across American Express' global businesses. Rida spent the first 10 years of her career in investment banking, advising private and public corporations on financings and M&A transactions at Oppenheimer, GE Merchant Bank and Wit Soundview Technology Group. She has completed over 45 transactions, with an aggregate value of $6+ billion.

Rida holds a B.S. in Finance & Information Systems from New York University.

Azar Gurbanov

Chief Information Officer

After co-founding Datacell, a start-up wireless data-service company, and helping to grow it into the leading wireless data service provider in Azerbaijan, Azar left his native country to attend Columbia Business School where he met Jeremy Miller and upon graduation joined FSAstore.com.

Prior to Datacell, Azar successfully led and completed various consulting projects, most recently for the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan where he led a team of PricewaterhouseCoopers consultants on the implementation of new accounting and financial reporting software and the transition to International Financial Reporting Standards.

Azar holds an MBA from Columbia University, an MS in Economics and Philosophy from the London School of Economics and a BA in Public Administration from Qafqaz University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.

Shawna Hausman

Chief Marketing Officer

Shawna Hausman is an experienced senior Ecommerce & Digital Marketing executive with a demonstrated history of working in both retail startups and large retail organizations across a variety of product types (intimate apparel, home goods, baby products, athletic apparel and gear). Shawna has a passion for tapping into new and emerging technologies in order to improve digital marketing efficiency and enhance the overall brand experience online.

Shawna holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BA in International Commerce from Brown University.

Zack Peckham

VP, Strategy

Zack has over 10 years of corporate finance, consulting, and investing experience, helping businesses to grow and achieve company-wide objectives. He holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Texas and an MBA from the Wharton School, and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Jenna Everhart

Head of HR

Jenna Everhart brings over 15 years of Human Resources experience primarily in the retail industry. As Head of Human Resources, she oversees the strategic direction of one of the company's greatest asset - its people. Jenna holds a BS in Business Administration from Northeastern University. She is married with 2 children and resides in New Jersey.

Matt Powers

Senior Vice President of Sales

Matt is a seasoned sales professional bringing over 15 years of sales and commercial operations leadership experience with fortune 100 healthcare companies to Health-E Commerce. He holds an MBA from Loyola University Chicago and a BS from Illinois State University. He is married with two daughters.

Clifford Gray

CISO, SVP of Technology and Security

Cliff Gray is the CISO, SVP of Technology and Security at FSAstore.com/HSAstore.com where he brings over 17 years of professional technology, management and architecture experience to lead the continued development of an innovative, robust, and secure technology platform. Prior to joining FSAstore.com/HSAstore.com Cliff worked for the world's leading provider of technology-enabled human capital management (HCM) solutions, including time and attendance, payment and compliance solutions. He has always been passionate about technology and wrote his first computer program at age 12.

Cliff obtained his B.S. in Physics and a M.S. in Education from Rutgers University where he also rowed on the University's crew team.

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